Subj : Local vs Network message boards
To   : Accession
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri May 24 2024 06:52 pm

  Re: Local vs Network message boards
  By: Accession to Blue White on Sun May 05 2024 08:36 am

 > Hello Blue,
 >
 > On Sun, 5 May 2024 13:07:18 -0500, you wrote:
 >
 >  BW> This post got me thinking, though, so I fired up MM on a QWK packet.
 >  BW> It truncates the subjects to ~24 on replies also.  I wonder if that is
 >  BW> a *QWK* standard and all QWK readers do it when processing QWK
 >  BW> packages?
 >
 > That's definitely possible. I haven't kept up with (or even looked at) QWK
 > standards. But even taking a look at Synchronet's wiki about QWK it does
 > seem to show the length of 25 bytes (with the last byte reserved for an
 > ascii 32 character = 24 bytes). So good call on that, as that would explain
 > it.

Original/standard QWK message subjects can be a full 25 characters. The last byte is not reserved for a space (ASCII 32).

QWKE (QWK extended) extends the subject length to > 25 characters (no max length specified).
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